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“La philosophie triomphe aisément des maux passés et des maux à venir. Mais les maux présents triomphent d'elle.”
― Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales

“If there is any one secret of success,” said Henry Ford, “it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.”
― Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People

“Tyranny is Tyranny let it come from whom it may.”
― Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present

“always increasing and that the world is by definition always becoming more unjust. Others believe that inequality is naturally decreasing, or that harmony comes about automatically, and that in any case nothing should be done that might risk disturbing this happy equilibrium. Given this dialogue of the deaf, in which each camp justifies its”
― Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century

“Le mal que nous faisons ne nous attire pas tant de persécution et de haine que nos bonnes qualités.”
― Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales

“Si nous n'avions point de défauts, nous ne prendrions pas tant de plaisir à en remarquer dans les autres.”
― Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales

“L'intérêt parle toutes sortes de langues, et joue toutes sortes de personnages, même celui de désintéressé.”
― Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales

“L'intérêt, qui aveugle les uns, fait la lumière des autres.”
― Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales

“Ceux qui s'appliquent trop aux petites choses deviennent ordinairement incapables des grandes.”
― Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“By 1914, approximately 85,000 Jews resided in Palestine, of whom about 35,000 had arrived in recent decades.”
― Martin Bunton, The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Very Short Introduction

“The British army’s occupation of Arab territories ended four centuries of Ottoman rule over them. An entirely new political map emerged as six new successor states from the former Ottoman Empire were created: Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Palestine, and Transjordan.”
― Martin Bunton, The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Very Short Introduction

“On n'est jamais si heureux ni si malheureux qu'on s'imagine.”
― François La Rochefoucauld, Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales

“Ceux qui croient avoir du mérite se font un honneur d'être malheureux, pour persuader aux autres et à eux-mêmes qu'ils sont dignes d'être en butte à la fortune.”
― François La Rochefoucauld, Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales

“Rien ne doit tant diminuer la satisfaction que nous avons de nous-mêmes, que de voir que nous désapprouvons dans un temps ce que nous approuvions dans un autre.”
― François La Rochefoucauld, Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales

“Il n'y a point d'accidents si malheureux dont les habiles gens ne tirent quelque avantage, ni de si heureux que les imprudents ne puissent tourner à leur préjudice.”
― François La Rochefoucauld, Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales

“Jackson himself described how the treaties were obtained: “. . . we addressed ourselves feelingly to the predominant and governing passion of all Indian tribes, i.e., their avarice or fear.” He encouraged white squatters to move into Indian lands, then told the Indians the government could not remove the whites and so they had better cede the lands or be wiped out. He also, Rogin says, “practiced extensive bribery.” These treaties, these land grabs, laid the basis for the cotton kingdom, the slave plantations. Every time a treaty was signed, pushing the Creeks from one area to the next, promising them security there, whites would move into the new area and the Creeks would feel compelled to sign another treaty, giving up more land in return for security elsewhere. Jackson’s work had brought the white settlements to the border of Florida, owned by Spain. Here were the villages of the Seminole Indians, joined by some Red Stick refugees, and encouraged by British agents in their resistance to the Americans. Settlers moved into Indian lands. Indians attacked. Atrocities took place on both sides. When certain villages refused to surrender people accused of murdering whites, Jackson ordered the villages destroyed.”
― Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present

“The political enemy need not be morally evil or aesthetically ugly; he need not appear as an economic competitor, and it may even be advantageous to engage with him in business transactions. But he is, nevertheless, the other, the stranger; and it is sufficient for his nature that he is, in a specially intense way, existentially something different and alien, so that in the extreme case conflicts with him are possible. These can neither be decided by a previously determined general norm nor by the judgment of a disinterested and therefore neutral third party.”
― Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political: Expanded Edition

“Il est difficile de définir l'amour. Ce qu'on en peut dire est que dans l'âme c'est une passion de régner, dans les esprits c'est une sympathie, et dans le corps ce n'est qu'une envie cachée et délicate de posséder ce que l'on aime après beaucoup de mystères.”
― François La Rochefoucauld, Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales

“Il n'y a guère de gens qui ne soient honteux de s'être aimés quand ils ne s'aiment plus.”
― François La Rochefoucauld, Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales

“Si on juge de l'amour par la plupart de ses effets, il ressemble plus à la haine qu'à l'amitié.”
― François La Rochefoucauld, Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales

“And we forget because we must.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, The Hand That First Held Mine

“Il est plus honteux de se défier de ses amis que d'en être trompé.”
― François La Rochefoucauld, Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales

“Tout le monde se plaint de sa mémoire, et personne ne se plaint de son jugement.”
― François La Rochefoucauld, Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales

“C'est une espèce de coquetterie de faire remarquer qu'on n'en fait jamais.”
― François La Rochefoucauld, Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales

“The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“My son is crying, and I can’t explain to him how dangerous it is to go to the zoo,” he said. “If he doesn’t go this year or the year after, when he is 16, he will think like a man to make revenge on his occupiers.”
― Anonymous

“The abysmally low turnout in last week’s midterm elections — the lowest in more than seven decades — was bad for Democrats, but it was even worse for democracy. In 43 states, less than half the eligible population bothered to vote, and no state broke 60 percent. In the three largest states — California, Texas and New York — less than a third of the eligible population voted. New York’s turnout was a shameful 28.8 percent, the fourth-lowest in the country, despite three statewide races (including the governor) and 27 House races.”
― Anonymous